On The Road To Tomorrow (1941)

[Music] foreign girls of today on the road to tomorrow s and girls who live in places that to us so far away no [Music] boys and girls who speak strange tongues a few of us understand [Music] boys and girls who press eagerly forward toward various widely Divergent goals boys and girls of many lands and different races yet all loyal and patriotic all doing their best according to their lives and all imbued with the hope that is the prime blessing of you each group believing implicitly that it is on the only fork of the road to tomorrow that leads to the bright future every race and Nation conceives to be its own peculiar destiny and youth of this passing day will keep a rendezvous with all these other boys and girls in the councils of the world and what our own youth stand for then will have weight more or less in determining whether that will be a better day than this for 50 years from now the world will be for all these boys and girls of many lands and races have made it for they will then be the Elder Statesman and the Parliament of mankind foreign that's why John deebs are so much more important potentially than he may seem to the Casual eye John and his fine wool Ohio sheep especially his prize-winning Merino Ram and that's why the appreciative care that Mary Cowell lavishes on Snow White her purebred airshiper may have a certain bearing on the trend of History for they belong to a youth movement too John and Mary and more than a million other Farm boys and girls in this land of ours youth movement that represents the great basic industry of America agriculture [Music] one million five hundred thousand boys and girls and this Ohio boy is one of them learn to do by doing is a watchword of the 4-H clubs Merle Voris learns by feeding purebred Durock Jersey Hogs a junk learns his part by reading Belgian draft horses surprise silly Linda Ann won the governor's trophy of the Ohio State Fair across the river in Kentucky where the horses are of a different breed we found another 4-H club boy whose specialty is tobacco this is Junior Spillman suckering his crop the second that he has grown as a 4-H club member [Music] Eleanor Clement who lives nearby in Indiana is skilled both in homemaking and farming with five years in club work including three and food preservation she is now a 4-H club leader down in Louisiana in the picturesque Acadian country we meet Annette Burley and that excels in making clothing as well as in baking wholesome and nutritious bread across the high plains and Over The Great Divide down among the foothills of California we find Glenn Goble busy grooming his cat for a livestock show and farther down the coast not far from the old mission of Capistrano where the swallows returned so surely we see Melba Ruth love at her sewing machine nelber Ruth enjoys sharing home responsibilities but she enjoys other things too she wants to be an astronomer in Puerto Rico 4-H girls make seashells a money craft here's a doll made holy of shells rain a with this 4-H ghost foreign in her Exquisite 4-H uniform proudly presenting her purebred Hampshire South [Music] demonstration teams acquire skill and confidence that tend to make for more enlightened rural leadership these girls are from Colorado this is a Louisiana stock judging team thus the 4-H club member devotes head heart hand and health not only to better farming or homemaking but also to better citizenship foreign each year selected representatives of these clubs meet in a national 4-H Camp in Washington there they visit National shrines learn to appreciate more fully the responsibility of citizenship perhaps meet the president of their country face to face and hear from his own lifts and formal words of greeting and counsel [Music] American Farm boys and girls on the road to tomorrow a youth movement rooted in the soil and the cardinal virtues a movement that has spread to every estate in the union to Alaska to Puerto Rico Hawaii Samoa Guam and the Philippines a youth movement that without benefit of any propaganda whatever has spread to Europe Asia and other Americas and the antipodes to Cuba for example where we see Rolanda mascara in his five sea Garden the pub River raila needlework Club 5c clubs have nearly 7 000 members [Music] similarly the movement has spread to Canada to Venezuela South Africa Australia New Zealand China Finland Sweden Norway Denmark and to Latvia where until not long ago a hundred thousand boys and girls wore the same four-leaf clover emblem that John Dees and Mary Cowell wear wore the same emblem and we're and were Bound by the same solemn vow the 4-H play I pledge my community and my country these are The Apprentice citizens who take the road to tomorrow as representatives of the farm communities of America and of where the 4-H move taken route these boys and girls move forward toward that remote Rendezvous where the issues of Tomorrow will be met we may rest assured that the world of 50 years hence may just let take pride in the work their hands shall have done the council their head shall have given and the Loyalty of their hearts shall have devoted to the service of their homelands [Music] for this is indeed a youth movement that America can commend to posterity one that seeks to achieve its ends without taking anything away from anybody by the production of useful physical wealth and the creation and cultivation of helpful spiritual and social values a youth movement that is altogether National yet one that unites boys and girls of many lands and different races by a common Bond a youth movement dedicated to unselfish service in which its members strive to Build a Better Home a better community and a better country and thus of course a thank you